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House Joint Resolution 62 |
House Author: Turner, Chris et al. |
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For Election: 11-5-13 |
Senate Sponsor: Van de Putte et al. |
House Joint Resolution 62 proposes an amendment to the state constitution to authorize the legislature by general law to entitle the surviving spouse of a member of the U.S. military who is killed in action to a property tax exemption for all or part of the market value of the surviving spouse's residence homestead if the surviving spouse has not remarried since the death of the member of the U.S. military. The resolution authorizes the legislature by general law to entitle a surviving spouse who qualifies for and receives the residence homestead exemption and who subsequently qualifies a different property as the surviving spouse's homestead to a property tax exemption for the subsequently qualified homestead in an amount equal to the dollar amount of the exemption for the former homestead in the last year in which the surviving spouse received an exemption for that homestead if the surviving spouse has not remarried since the death of the member of the U.S. military.